Being funny on Twitter is hard. First, there’s the character limit – it’s nearly impossible to get any coherent thought out in 140 characters – and then there are the trolls, reminding you every single time you slip up and express an actual opinion.

Since Twitter’s launch in 2006, and its global acceptance a few years later, most users have moved away from posting thoughts and observations – even hilarious ones – in favor of sharing articles, videos, or participating in endlessly aggravating fights. Given the reactionary climate, it’s somewhat surprising that anyone still puts themselves out there for public ridicule. Here, 25 hilarious people that are still going strong, bringing their quips, barbs and stoned late-night ramblings to the Internet – no matter the outcome.

@BoobsRadley

I bet the worst part of dating a documentary filmmaker is when he brings up things you did in the past and sets them to banjo music.

When Julieanne Smolinski isn’t starting fights with Will Shortz about the definition of “illin’” or contributing to shows like Grace and Frankie, the L.A. writer shares her perfectly-crafted one-liners with the world, making Twitter a better place for everyone.

@MeganAmram

We’re in the exact point of climate change as when wile e. coyote runs off the cliff but hasn’t looked down yet

Leslie Jones has practically made live-tweeting an art form — she was so hilarious commenting on the Olympics last summer that NBC actually flew her to Rio. The Saturday Night Live and Ghostbusters star occasionally has to go dark because people on the Internet are terrible, but always comes back with her sense of humor.

You might remember Maura Quint from her viral Facebook post last year calling out Josh Ostrovsky (a.k.a. the Fat Jew) for stealing jokes. But her originals are better than any of his memes, from her thoughts about religion (“And on the seventh day, God look[ed] on that which he had created and he said unto it: ‘Fuck it, send.'”) to the true meaning of “Steal My Sunshine.”

@jenstatsky

Say what you will about Donald Trump, but ya gotta give him this: he *IS* a bloated corpse come back to life.

Jen Statsky has some of the best comedy bona fides of the 2010s — stints at Jimmy Fallon, Parks and Rec and Broad City — so it’s not surprising that she’s also hilarious in short form, whether she’s talking about Trump or how maybe the death penalty’s OK in the case of the guy who stole that envelope of Wilco tickets off her door.

@charstarlene

Girl likes boy. Boy doesn’t like girl. Girl runs off with other boy. Girl is trapped in a cult. I need you to pick me up in Allentown, PA.

Expect to see a lot more of Charlene deGuzman. The dancer-turned-comedian successfully completed a Kickstarter campaign for her film Unlovabable, a based-on-her-real-life story of a girl addicted to love and sex that she developed with Mark Duplass. If it’s anywhere near as good as her Twitter feed, we expect big things.

Patton Oswalt is a perennial favorite for best-of-Twitter lists, probably because he’s been able to use the format better than just about anyone else – like the time he trolled the entire Internet using clever two-part tweets. He’s been relatively quiet since his wife, Michelle McNamara, passed away earlier this year, but was back to tweet his Emmy win — and promised he’d be regularly “telling jokes” again soon.

@conanobrien

Am I too late for a Matthew McConaughey “alt-right, alt-right, alt-right” tweet?

OK, including Conan O’Brien is almost a cop-out – he’s one of the country’s most successful comedians and has been hosting a late-night show for most of the past 25 years. But unlike some of his peers, he still takes time once or twice a day to tweet a good left-field one-liner, and remind us all why we loved him in the first place.

@michelleisawolf

I bet a lot of teachers look at Facebook posts and think “oh now you wanna write an essay”

New York comic Michelle Wolf has played big audiences – opening-for-Louis-C.K.-at-Madison-Square-Garden kind of big – so she’s not scared to open up on a medium like Twitter, covering everything from Apple’s questionable new products to how early you have to get up to be a criminal these days.

@sbellelauren

you can always gauge your depression level by how realistic a food package’s “serving size” sounds to you

Demitri Martin’s show didn’t last on TV, but the short format of Twitter works well with his deadpan thoughts, observations and ideas for inventions, like “a dartboard that makes a little ‘ouch’ sound whenever a dart hits it.”

@SteveMartinToGo

If the Russians can find my old iTunes playlist, that would be so great.

One of the more reclusive picks on this list, this L.A. resident (and Maryland native) goes only by “Scotty,” telling Rolling Stone that he’d rather stay anonymous so he can “dine at Red Lobster without incident.”

Kelly Oxford was one of the first Twitter stars, landing screenwriting gigs and a book deal on the strength of her tweets alone. Six years later, she’s still going strong – though part of the credit should probably go to her 8-year-old daughter Bea, who has brilliant takes on everything from female beauty standards to Beyoncé to her confusion about why women have to menstruate on weekends.

@KenJennings

Good question. Yes, the purpose of this time-travel mission is to kill Hitler. But on the way we’re going to stop at Warped Tours 1996-1999.

Ken Jennings is smarter than everyone, and he proved that in 2004 by winning 74 consecutive games of Jeopardy. Now he’s proving that he’s funnier than everyone, too, trolling everything from Wheel of Fortune to the Republican party.

@RonanFarrow

“Those who are preaching hate in our country will be asked to leave”, says Donald Trump, not understanding the concept of irony.

Ben Schwartz – who you might know as Jean-Ralphio, Aziz Ansari’s unforgettable business partner on Parks and Rec – could fill his feed entirely with links to his hilarious podcasts, movies and clips. But Schwartz still manages to sneak in great jokes amid the retweets – and perhaps most surprisingly none of them are about Trump.

@Ch000ch

kind of offended my skydiving safety instructor is assuming i want to survive this

Brooklyn stand-up comic Bob Vulfov, a Moscow native, has claimed he learned English by watching Hey Arnold! – but he’s clearly been more influenced by his training at Upright Citizen Brigade, where he still performs, tweeting daily about topics like sponsored orgasms or Trump’s creepy doctor.

@AmberTozer

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Oh my god I just realized we all have to keep doing stuff until we die

Few people could make sobriety as funny as L.A. writer Amber Tozer, whose memoir, Sober Stick Figure, was released last summer. While the book, illustrated throughout by Tozer herself, has some serious and poignant moments, her Twitter account tends to stick to lighter subjects like lying to her diary and the childhood trauma of whoever designed the iPhone 7.

Solomon Georgio, born in Sudan to Ethiopian refugees, came to the United States when he was 3 – and it’s fair to say he’s made the country a better place. On Twitter, he rails on Trump, racists, homophobes and even his trolls, calmly telling them off with lines like, “Go play elsewhere.”

@shutupmikeginn

iPhone may have Mario and the best PokemonGo support, but itll never trump the classic Android game “Guess Which Emoji The Apple User Typed”

Comic Aparna Nancherla just had a half-hour special on Comedy Central, but you’ve probably heard her jokes on Late Night with Seth Meyers, seen her doing stand up on Conan or appearing in the occasional sketch on Inside Amy Schumer. But her Twitter account is still some of her best work.

@jennyslate

I am the only person remaining in this USA who still thinks that a landline in a bathroom is the meaning of “fancy”

Jenny Slate found out she was unceremoniously fired from SNL on the Internet, so it would be well within her rights to never log on again. But between her film projects – Marcel the Shell, Obvious Child– and her on-point Twitter account, Slate has proved that it’s only Lorne Michaels’ loss.